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General: Sunak’s vow to stop housebuilding on green belt labelled as ‘desperate’

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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2022 edited
     
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/28/rishi-sunak-warned-pledge-to-stop-green-belt-development-will-worsen-uk-housing-crisis

    Well, is it or isn't it? Does easy-build on farmland really make housing cheaper or more abundant, let alone get youngsters a foot on the ladder?
    What if brownfield really was all that's available? There's no shortage of obsolescent land-use, and doesn't necessarily mean polluted land.
    Wouldn't the housebuilders (or maybe some new kind of organisation or corporation) work out how to make a mass-market out of it?
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    Developers won't be able to build anything for a decade in West London anyway, by the looks of things:

    https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/supply-chain/electricity-shortage-leads-to-ban-on-west-london-developments-28-07-2022/
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      CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2022
     
    Posted By: Doubting_ThomasDevelopers won't be able to build anything for a decade in West London anyway, by the looks of things:

    https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/supply-chain/electricity-shortage-leads-to-ban-on-west-london-developments-28-07-2022/


    Excellent. Sounds similar to Norfolk's halt on planning permissions, courtesy of the Environment Agency.

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/housing/broads-pollution-fears-delay-norfolk-homes-decisions-8805808
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    That's widespread - a terminally ill member of my family has had his application to adapt his house to his needs delayed by a year, due to wrangling about whether it would increase phosphate loads on the local sewage works.

    See eg https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/planning-permission/phosphate-issues-cause-long-delays-for-farm-planning-applications

    "Natural England told councils in August 2020 that planning applications for residential, commercial, agricultural and certain energy projects should only be approved if it can be demonstrated that the proposals will not lead to a rise in phosphate levels at nearby protected environmental sites"

    "measures to mitigate this must be designed and approved as part of the planning process... as a result of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in a case known as the “Dutch N case”.

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